Archive: March 2015

Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Futurism The two key ingredients to Mark Zuckerberg’s all-in AI push? Money, and a heaping serving of misanthropy. As part of his AI-first regime, Meta has fired thousands of employees while forcing the ones that remain to use the tech as much as possible, speeding them towards burnout. The expectation now is that they run a whole posse of AI agents that work in the background so a single employee can tack

The AI character branded “Tilly Norwood” by London-based developers Particle6 is having a bad time on its press tour for Misaligned, its forthcoming and assuredly terrible movie. On Friday, the model powering Norwood swung by Piers Morgan’s YouTube talk show Piers Morgan Uncensored for a simulated “interview” that might be charitably compared to that feeling that hits the brain just before a migraine strikes. The model powering Norwood had noticeable lag t

Her name is Angelina: she runs on a heavy-duty Mac server and she’s building some addictive computer games for you. Angelina (a tail-recursive acronym for “A Novel Game-Evolving Labrat I’ve Named ANGELINA”) is a project in evolutionary computing by Michael Cook, a PhD candidate at Imperial College in the UK. Angelina generates computer games from scratch. It arrives at a final product by breaking down the important elements of a game into sub-tasks called

Published June 19, 2026 at 1:14 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Meta « It’s literally a gulag. Overnight, you no longer have any purpose in life ». Some Meta employees describe a dire working environment within the company. The group’s race to develop artificial intelligence would come at the expense of its employees’ mental health. « It’s literally a gulag », « running a marathon in the middle of a hailstorm », « the madness of this company » : accounts describi

OpenAI hopes to convince the White House to approve a sprawling plan that would place 5-gigawatt AI data centers in different US cities, Bloomberg reports. The AI company’s CEO, Sam Altman, supposedly pitched the plan after a recent meeting with the Biden administration where stakeholders discussed AI infrastructure needs. Bloomberg reviewed an OpenAI document outlining the plan, reporting that 5 gigawatts “is roughly the equivalent of five nuclear reactor

On Tuesday, OpenAI continued its all-out assault on mathematicians’ peace of mind and sense of career stability by releasing 377 new math results in the form of an info-dump on GitHub. What kinds of accomplishments is OpenAI claiming now? Well, one paper chosen at random claims to have proven “the full Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer leading term formula.” So that’s pretty good. But don’t get too excited because apparently it’s only for the elliptical curves over ℚ,

Want to know what’s coming next for your AMD-based desktop PC? We can glean an inkling of what’s coming next from AMD through its latest Zen 6 EPYC enterprise-grade processors. These are server-level chips that are built for a specific use case, so you can’t apples-to-apples compare them with any kind of desktop PC-level chip. They are, however, using the same upcoming microarchitecture. For one, these chips are built on TSMC’s N2P processing node, meaning

Clothoff—one of the leading apps used to quickly and cheaply make fake nudes from images of real people—reportedly is planning a global expansion to continue dominating deepfake porn online. Also known as a nudify app, Clothoff has resisted attempts to unmask and confront its operators. Last August, the app was among those that San Francisco’s city attorney, David Chiu, sued in hopes of forcing a shutdown. But recently, a whistleblower—who had “access to i

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returns this week, picking up five years after season two. Sauron is that much closer to crafting the One Ring, but in the meantime, Middle-earth has become a battleground between his followers and his opponents. As season three begins, Númenor is one of the few realms remaining that has yet to declare a side. One reason for that is because Númenor is an island kingdom, so it’s viewing the rise of Sauron from a dis

Much attention was paid to OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk trading barbs on X this week after Musk threatened to sue Apple over supposedly biased App Store rankings privileging ChatGPT over Grok. But while the heated social media exchanges were among the most tense ever seen between the two former partners who cofounded OpenAI—more on that below—it seems likely that their jabs were motivated less by who’s in the lead on Apple’s “Must Have” app list

Look, we’re all pretty sure 3-SAT can’t be solved in polynomial time. So when this comes up—as happens multiple times a day—we all know where to turn. Say it with me: the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH). I mean, sure, that’s unproven too, but it gives us all a good idea of how much non-polynomial time something is going to take. Or does it??? Because OpenAI claims to have just disproved the entire ETH. Back to the drawing board everyone! I’m actually jus

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cut the words "please" and "thank you" from your next ChatGPT query and, if you believe some of the talk online, you might think you are helping save the planet. The idea sounds plausible because AI systems process text incrementally: longer prompts require slightly more computation and therefore use more energy. OpenAI's chief executive, Sam Altman, has acknowledged it all adds to operating costs at the scale of billions

Shutterstock / Ole.CNX For months, executives at top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have been dumping tens of millions of dollars into political action groups, in an obvious bid to curry favor with electoral candidates ahead of the US midterm elections. And while we have a good idea of how much money top AI companies have spent — at least $55.7 million so-far — their exact policy positions have been difficult to pin down. That is, until now. According t

Big tech firms have poured an infinite amount of money into artificial intelligence development and rolled out tools without any consideration as to whether consumers actually want them or not, all based on the theory that eventually they’ll figure out how to turn a profit. Instead, early returns seem to suggest they’ve simply figured out a way to eat their own profits without an obvious way to replace that revenue stream. That is at least the case for Goo

The unusual IPO timing underscores Elon Musk's history of mixing personal whims with business decisions. SpaceX is targeting a mid-June initial public offering that would coincide with a rare planetary alignment and founder Elon Musk's birthday, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, as the billionaire entrepreneur seeks to raise a record $50 billion. The rocket company is planning its IPO for when Jupiter and Venus appear very close together in the sk

Table of Contents Open-Source Low-Code: Budibase 4.0 Simplifies Business Processes Track agent actions and automation runs Transfer projects with their dependencies Manage requests and approvals in the portal The Budibase team has released version 4.0.0 of its low-code platform. The main new features are an activity view for agents and automations, enhanced project exports, and a portal for requests and approvals. Continue reading after the advertisement T

Brandon Dill for The Washington Post via Getty Images Claude maker Anthropic has signed an unprecedented $3.4 billion deal with a Texas-based energy company called OnePWR Solutions. As the Financial Times reports, the deal will provide gas-fired engines to provide AI data centers with off-grid electricity. The AI industry is racing to secure enough power and related equipment for its incredibly resource-intensive — and massively hated — facilities, and the

The United States has now named six Chinese AI firms accused of waging industrial-scale attacks distilling US frontier AI model capabilities and perhaps sparing billions in Chinese development costs. In a joint release Tuesday, the National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) alleged that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI have been attacking US mo

It’s almost like Google’s got something to prove after taking a break from releasing new frontier AI models earlier this year. Just two weeks after rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, Google has announced Gemini 4 Carbon. This isn’t the Flash model equivalent we’ve been waiting for but, rather, is an improvement on Argon, and like that model, Google is working on a staged release that could take a while. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Google says its lat

According to its own figures, OpenAI increased revenue by 50 percent to around 10 billion US dollars in the third quarter, but at the same time increased its loss again, to 10.9 billion US dollars from 10.1 billion in the previous quarter. The Wall Street Journal reports this, citing information the AI company has made available to investors. This leaves the once-leading AI company behind its rival Anthropic, which reported revenue of 17 billion US dollars